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Farm to table cooking & fermenting for family & guests

5.0
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The experience

We love food, good ingredients and turning them into something delicious. Our son Nol (19) is becoming a chef and wants to learn from professionals. If you have education in cooking and/or serious experience to help him professionalize, please apply!
We will provide you with fun and good local, in-season ingredients. We ferment, bake bread & cakes, we butcher, make fresh pasta, sausages, smoke fish & meat, cook on a wood stove, gas or open fire.

What you offer

15 hours of help per week

Cooking: Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Get free drinks or beverages.: Drink up! Get free and tasty drinks for yourself.

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Holistic Therapies: You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.

Permaculture Course: Take part in our Permaculture course for free.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Fluent English or Fluent Dutch

Between 23 and 80 years old

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Our family is food-enthusiastic. We love great dishes, prepared with ingredients from our (permaculture) garden. So you can expect passion and enthusiasm, super fresh ingredients and a well equipped kitchen.
You work together with our son Nol, a fun and smart young man, to teach him tips, tricks, recipes, work under pressure, safety, hygiene and a clean kitchen.

We grow all kinds of fruits & vegetables, including asparagus and rhubarb, chards and kale. We have chickens for eggs (and after 4 years for soup), rabbits for meat, sheep for mowing and meat.

We have some great recipes and typical Croatian dishes as well, that we would be happy to share with you.
Barbara is the fermenter: she makes flower wines, berry wines, kombucha, kvass, waterkefir, kefir, yogurt, kimchi, sauerkraut, turshya and sometimes sourdough bread.

Activities & Shift

If you like, you can help out in the garden to see how we grow our vegetables and feed them with home made compost and fertilizers. Gardening is optional.

We expect you to work together with Nol and have fun in the kitchen. Our lunches are simple (bread with home made spreads like hummus, ajvar butter, nut butters, a salad) and our dinners more extended.

We're not people that watch the clock; your job is more to fuel Nol's passion and learning.

Rules

We expect fun and flexibility, openness and drive. You can expect this all from us as well.
We expect you to be a responsible person with an adult attitude. You keep your caravan or room clean and you keep the work spaces organised. You are an example for this young man here!
We will provide you with a bed and 3 (organic, colorful & delicious) meals (with ingredients mostly from our terrain) per day. There is always a vegetarian option.
Although we are meat eaters, we enjoy vegetarian food as well. But veganism we do not appreciate because in our climate region that is not sustainable. So if you eat vegan please don't apply.
We don't appreciate fixations or dogma's in general, but we do appreciate fun and flexibility!